@inproceedings{gandhi-etal-2026-steer, title = "Steer, Don{'}t Solve: Training Small Critic Models for Large Code Agents", author = "Gandhi, Shubham and Xie, Yiqing and Naik, Atharva and Zhu, Ruichen and Rose, Carolyn", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2478/", pages = "56259--56276", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }